Illinois:  History of Cass County, Illinois, ed. William 
Henry Perrin. O. L. Baskin & Co. Historical Publishers, 
Chicago, 1882. Cass County.

JOHN M. MONTGOMERY, farmer; P.O., Little Indian, was born 
in Lexington, Rockbridge County, Va., July 2, 1815; he is 
the oldest of a family of ten children. His educational 
privileges were limited to the common schools of Kentucky, 
where he lived with his parents thirteen years previous to 
their removal to Illinois, which occurred in 1829. He still 
remains upon the homestead farm, which has been his home 
for fifty-two years; he has never made a specialty on his 
farm, but grows all the usual farm crops. Religiously he 
has been connected with the Presbyterian Church for a 
period of forty-seven years. Politically, he is a 
Republican, and socially, enjoys the highest esteem of the 
entire community. His father, Samuel Montgomery, was also a 
native of Virginia; born Oct. 1, 1791; was a cabinet maker 
by trade; he died July 25, 1861; Mary Bailey, his wife, was 
also born in Virginia, March 20, 1791, and died Feb. 5, 
1839.

Montgomery Bailey
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Rockbridge-VA KY